Professors start new award for EXP students

Founder of the Plattsburgh State Expeditionary Studies program, Laurence Soroka, along with his wife, Dean of PSUC Library Information and Technology Services Cerise Oberman, recently established the Expeditionary Studies Endowment Award in order to provide deserving EXP students financial support.

“We’ve found the college to be an extraordinarily comfortable and supportive place,” Soroka said in a PSUC press release. “The college has been good to us, and we wanted to contribute to its growth and creativity. The gift is our way of giving back a little of what we’ve gained over the years.”

The couple arrived at the college nearly 30 years ago after Oberman took her current position. Though Soroka initially worked as a professor in the PSUC English department, he eventually changed programs when, in 1997, then-Provost Thomas Moran invited faculty members to brainstorm program ideas.